Christmas Displays

We have so many Christmas and holiday titles in the library that I wanted to pull them together for a special display.  It turned into three displays, and I still have books waiting on another shelf to fill in the others get checked out.

 

I Spy Display

For December, I created an I Spy display in our case to catch the eye of all the kids coming through the library.  I organized the three shelves by color; red, white/blue/silver, and green to give it some continuity.  I also used other items to build the display higher and included multiples of some items to add a counting feature.  After it was made, I created the rhymes to find the stuff.

 

Veteran's Day Display

For the first half of November, we created this display to honor Veteran's Day.  I used the picture from the official Veteran's Day site to remind people of the exact day.  It was fun to research fiction titles for this--I wanted war stories that could have actually happened, not alien invasions!  Also, I wanted thrillers set during one of the wars that Americans had participated in, so  I didn't go before the Revolutionary War.  I also ruled out espionage and other CIA/FBI type thrillers, or books about imagined terrorist attacks. 

Pulling relevant books from the non-fiction stacks and biographies was very easy.

No-Shave November: I mustache you to check out these amazing books

For the second half of November, I created this display.  The only thing all the books have in common is that they have a cover that I could tape a mustache on!

I found this site with a great poster--I changed the wording slightly to reflect my preferences.

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and then I also searched for mustache images to cut out for my book covers.